PwC’s Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution Canada network

Preventing, managing and resolving tax audits and disputes worldwide

PwC’s Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution (TCDR) team assists businesses in all areas of dispute avoidance, tax controversy and dispute resolution.

Our PwC Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution network can help you:

• Gain a better understanding of your company’s risks and exposures
• Develop sound policies and processes to help safeguard your organisation against audits and disputes
• Implement consistent and defensible practices and policies
• Manage your tax disputes, audits, and examinations worldwide

Our TCDR team includes accountants, economists, and industry sector specialists in all areas of direct income and indirect commodity tax, working jointly with lawyers from PwC’s affiliated law firm Wilson & Partners LLP. Our team also includes former CRA officials:

• Charles Thériault and Rémi Gray – transfer pricing including competent authority matters and advance pricing agreements;
• Rick Biscaro and Marc Vanasse – Income Tax Rulings Directorate;
• Bill Nakano and Sharon Gulliver – Compliance and Aggressive Tax Planning;
• Mel Machado – Scientific research and experimental development;
• Bharat Patel – Oil and Gas.

In addition, our team also includes other former government officials:

• Nathalie Goyette – Justice;
• Réal Tremblay – Province of Quebec.

Collectively, our team is uniquely able to help you successfully manage the life cycle of tax controversies from pre-audit prevention to audit examination management to post-audit dispute resolution/settlement.